Skype video feeds show up as a green box. The webcam is a Microsoft lifecam but that should'nt matter because the camera works in cheese webcam both and the person i am skyping can see me. I thought it might have something to do with video codecs or something. Help?

Which Ubuntu release are you using? Which Skype version is installed? What video card do you have? Are your video drivers up to date?
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Mitch♦Jun 10 '13 at 17:28

Ubuntu 13.04 skype:i386 4.2.0.11-1 Video is Intel® Haswell Desktop (HD 4600) I believe it uses the mesa driver which should be updated with the kernel. could it be that skype is i386 on a x64 os? maybe because of the lack of i386 codecs?
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leszakkJun 10 '13 at 18:12